For most people, a dog is a better fit than a tarantula for the category of pets. This is an example of ____________
A) linguistic relativity
B) graded membership
C) priming
D) functional fixedness
Answer: B
Rationale: Graded membership is the observation that some concepts appear to make better category members than others.
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